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This interview is part of the Represent Los Gatos Oral History Project series. Dale Wong was born in San Mateo and spent her early years in San Francisco. Her father passed away when she was 5 years old, and because her mother was older and had little means of support, Dale was sent to live in the Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos until she was 10 years old. While at Ming Quong, her to-be foster parents, the Schmidts, would visit and take the girls, including Dale, on outings. When the Ming Quong Home was closing, the Schmidts welcomed Dale into their home and became her foster parents. Listen to her story, and see some wonderful photos at the end, which show Dale and many others who resided in the Ming Quong home. Read a complete transcript of the interview below. Grace Song: [00:00:01] Hello, Dale. Thank you so much for joining us for today. We're so grateful that you're able to spend time with us in this interview. And would you like to introduce yourself? Dale Lee: [00:00:16] Oh sure I'm Dale Lee. When I was at Ming Quong, I was Dale Wong, and I'm I live in San Bruno and have four children. I had worked for the school district for a number of years, and hopefully I can answer any questions you might have. Grace Song: [00:00:41] Ok, thank you. When were you born? Dale Lee: [00:00:45] I was born in 1945. November, in fact, November 18th is Mickey Mouse's birthday. Grace Song: [00:00:53] Oh, nice little tidbit there. OK, so 1945. And where were you born? Dale Lee: [00:01:05] In San Mateo. It what used to be called the Mills Hospital. OK. The building is still standing, but now it's it's still a medical building, but not a hospital. Grace Song: [00:01:18] And can you tell me anything about your parents? Dale Lee: [00:01:24] I'm well, they're both from China, as I understand. You know, this is only from what my other relatives told me. Dale Lee: [00:01:35] My mother was a picture bride in those days, you couldn't bring over your wife to America, so this gentleman, an older gentleman, looked through this picture book, picked out her brought her over. She was probably around 18, 19. He was, I believe, in his 30s. She had a family of four children and he passed away. And then she met my father in America and they got married and had me. But that was much later in her life. And then, unfortunately, my father passed away when he was only 50. Grace Song: [00:02:17] Oh, I see, yeah. And you didn't have any siblings? Dale Lee: [00:02:24] I didn't, no. No, I did keep in touch with the first family that my mother had children with. But other than that, no, I was the only one from my parents. Grace Song: [00:02:37] I see. And so how old were you when your father passed away then? Dale Lee: [00:02:45] I was about five years old. Grace Song: [00:02:46] OK. OK. And I have something in my notes here about someone owning a flower store in San Francisco. I didn't write down who that was. Dale Lee: [00:02:59] Oh yeah. When I was born, my parents owned the flower shop right there in Millbrae. And I understand they also lived there, too. And then my mother was highly allergic to flowers, so they had to close shop and they moved to San Francisco and my father ended up working in a restaurant. Grace Song: [00:03:25] Ok. And so then at that point, when your father passed away, you went to Ming Quong? Was that pretty immediate? Dale Lee: [00:03:38] As far as I can remember, you know, it just I know my mom. She couldn't take care of me. She was much older and didn't really have any means of support. And she had heard of this home and got in touch with the people and nothing was ever explained to me, I just went for a car ride one day and ended up at Ming Quong and also my mother left and there was no explanation, nothing. So it was quite traumatic during that time. Grace Song: [00:04:15] Yeah, definitely. And you know, any details on how your mother found out about Ming Quong? Dale Lee: [00:04:28] I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Grace Song: [00:04:30] Oh, sorry about that. Do you know any details on how your your mother found out about Ming Quong? Dale Lee: [00:04:36] No, I really don't. I just understand that there were some friends that knew of Ming Quong. And so she, you know, I guess checked it out and figured it was better that I'd be taken care of by another person. Grace Song: [00:04:53] I see. And so how long how long were you there? Dale Lee: [00:05:00] For about four or five years until I was 10. Then I returned to the city to live with the foster parents. Grace Song: [00:05:09] Can you speak about your experience at Ming Quong, any memories that you have from there? I know you were pretty young, but if you have anything. Dale Lee: [00:05:19] There are some highlights that I remember every summer we would go, I believe, camping. And I was at either Big Basin I believe and every year I come home with poison oak all over my face. So I have to go into the infirmary until it pass. Every year was that way. And then we also. It's a great place to play hide and seek because it's a big compound and we did a lot of that called kick the can. I don't know if you ever heard of it, but you go and hide and people come and find you. And let's see what else. There was a big playground on the campus, and so we were all able to, you know, go on the slides or the swings or whatever, and that's where I learned how to ride a bicycle. We had this little incline. And of course, the first time I went, I fell. And I still have a scar to prove it. Wow. Yeah, but that's where you learn to roller skate or bicycle or some of the things you do as a kid. I have a lot of memories of, you know, having dinners and then food, we always had our food in the main building with all the other groups of kids and. Unfortunately, one time I was helping in the kitchen and I was carrying a huge bowl of oatmeal and clumsy me, I tripped and it spilled all over my right hand. And if you don't know any better, it creates quite a boil. And so to this day, I still have it. So it just looks. It's like a big heating pad, you know, just burnt but you know, just things like that. Dale Lee: [00:07:32] I'm trying to think of anything else. Dale Lee: [00:07:38] And every Sunday, of course, we went to church and then Sunday was kind of special because we stayed in our own cottages and they were for different age group, with different cottages, and so we'd have to stay and do something quiet and just have a small meal for Sunday, we ate in the in the cottages instead of going to the main building. Grace Song: [00:08:08] And these cottages were on the property, the Ming Quong property? Dale Lee: [00:08:13] Yes, there were three main ones for the very young, then the medium and then the older kids that were probably 10 or so. Dale Lee: [00:08:24] And each cottage had one would be five or six rooms and each room had two people. So I always had a roommate. And there were we had our own closet, our own bureau, our own bed, so we didn't have to share a bed or anything like that. Grace Song: [00:08:47] But you didn't say you didn't stay in those cottages all the time. Right. It was just on Sunday. Dale Lee: [00:08:53] It was just for, like, going home. You get ready for bed and do you study you know, you have at school, you have someplace to study. Or if you weren't doing that most time, you were outside playing somewhere. Grace Song: [00:09:06] Right. Grace Song: [00:09:08] When you were playing outside after school and things like that, would you ever go, I guess, exploring outside of the property or the Ming Quong area, the property or did you stay pretty close by? Dale Lee: [00:09:23] No, we stayed inside the property boundaries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There wasn't anything around that you could walk to. I mean, downtown was quite a ways and the rest of the homes around us were all residential. So it really wasn't any place you really want to go. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because everything was there that you could possibly want to play, you had plenty of people to play with. They were right there. We had a housemother, each cottage had a housemother and one particular one, Miss Martin was from Burma and. She'd make sure that we behave ourselves and to not get into trouble and we needed something, we would go to her. Grace Song: [00:10:22] What did you say her name was, again? Dale Lee: [00:10:24] Miss Martin. Grace Song: [00:10:25] Miss Martin. Dale Lee: [00:10:28] Adelaide Martin. Grace Song: [00:10:29] OK, I think I read a little bit about her in Nona's book. Dale Lee: [00:10:35] Oh, yeah. After I left, my my foster parents made friends with her. And so we continued to see her even after she retired and we kept in touch. In fact, my parents took her she had written up her her life story and had given it to my parents because it was very it was during the war when she really had to walk out of Burma on foot to to get away from the oppressors. So it was quite a story. So she always walked with a limp because of that. Grace Song: [00:11:20] Oh, wow. And while you were at Ming Quong, did you have lots of visitors come and not necessarily just for you, but for the other girls who lived there? Dale Lee: [00:11:37] Not that I remember. I know my my sister and my mother would come around Christmas time every year and say hello. I don't remember many of any other friends that would drop by even of the girl's parents. Later on, in a closer to when I was 9 or 10, that's when my foster parents would come around every weekend and take two of us back to the city and we'd have a great weekend doing going to the zoo or going on hikes or whatever. And then they would bring us back on Sunday. So we all took turns. We all looked forward to being able to go out with them. And so it was kind of a special privilege. We got to spend a weekend with them. Grace Song: [00:12:30] And your foster parents? Were they the only couple that would come do that and take the girls out? Dale Lee: [00:12:37] Yes, yes, that's as far as I know that those were the only two. Yes. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:12:46] Daniel, did you have any questions I'm trying to. Daniel Keough: [00:12:49] I was just wondering how the how your foster parents learned about Ming Quong. Do you know how they found out about it? Dale Lee: [00:12:58] I think they just read about it because mom was a teacher at one of the junior highs in San Francisco, which had mainly Asian children. I think it was Francisco Junior High. And so they they had made friends of other Asian children there. And then they learned about Ming Quong and how they could go visit it. And so they made friends with the faculty. And the visiting started after that. Daniel Keough: [00:13:31] Interesting. Dale Lee: [00:13:34] Of course, nowadays you can't you can't do that very often. They were pretty lax. Yeah, yeah. So. And then. Even some of the they also took some of the older girls that were from Oakland and they would take them two by two, they would come and spend the weekend. So if you ask some of the older girls, they they also know the Schmidt family. Daniel Keough: [00:14:04] Interesting, so they really had an effect on everyone that was there at that time. Dale Lee: [00:14:09] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Daniel Keough: [00:14:12] Do you remember much about the other adults at the Ming Quong home? Dale Lee: [00:14:17] You know, the cook really stood out. Ms. Rieber. I don't know how she did it everyday, cooking three meals a day. It's just like, wow, she was just a very nice lady. And course we all had our favorite food or not favorite food, and we would tell each other later in life as we were older, we would tell each other how we got rid of some of the food we didn't want. So there's always custard and there was always eggplant, which we all we just could not stomach. Dale Lee: [00:14:59] And so Ms. Rieber, well, there was a caretakers. They were Mr. and Mrs. O'Neil. And they were ahead of the whole home. They took care of all the administrative things and they had their daughter, Kathy, which was a little younger than most of us, but she would join us in playing or whatever we would be doing. In fact, there's one picture in the roll of film I gave you where mom would come and she would teach us tumbling or dancing or some type of physical activity because she was also a dance teacher at one time. So we had fun, you know, just having something to do and being able to perform. Daniel Keough: [00:16:00] I know you you left pretty young, but do you remember speaking Chinese at all with your parents before you were brought to Ming Quong? Dale Lee: [00:16:10] Oh, yes, I was, in fact, the translator for them. I was only five, but they own the grocery store. And I remember I would translate for them because their English was not very good. And so that that really bothered me, though, after I was at Ming Quong, you know, after a year you forget it. And I couldn't talk to my mother after that so. Daniel Keough: [00:16:39] The girls wouldn't speak it together. You didn't speak with any of the other girls that were there? Dale Lee: [00:16:43] No, but none of them spoke Chinese. They were all English, so. Unfortunately, that's what happens. Grace Song: [00:16:54] Yeah, when you're that age, you yeah, it's so easy to be influenced by whatever language you're hearing the most, so. Dale Lee: [00:17:02] Right, right. Dale Lee: [00:17:04] Yeah. You know, in school, you just have the English. At church you only have English. Grace Song: [00:17:10] And where was the church that you attended? Dale Lee: [00:17:15] It was a Presbyterian church in Los Gatos, that's all I remember. Grace Song: [00:17:19] Ok. Yeah, and you don't remember the name of it might have been called Los Gatos Presbyterian. Dale Lee: [00:17:26] Yeah, I'm sure it's probably that. Yeah. And the elementary school was Louise Van Meter, and we would I have a few pictures of us loading on the bus and we would be bus to the school, which is right in Los Gatos. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:17:44] When you rode the bus, would it pick up other children from different houses too? Dale Lee: [00:17:52] You know, I don't think so. I think they just picked us, picked us up and straight to school. Grace Song: [00:17:59] Well, there was probably a good number of you going to school together. And so what was that like going to Louise Van Meter during those five years? Dale Lee: [00:18:17] Well, I was trying to think I probably attended first, second, third, fourth and maybe fifth grade there, and I really don't remember most of it. I, I cannot remember anything about it, you know, just that's gone. Grace Song: [00:18:38] Do you happen to remember if you made any friends at school outside of Ming Quong or anything like that? Dale Lee: [00:18:48] No, not really. I, I think I was too young to really realize, you know, you can make friends for a lifetime or whatever, and I don't I didn't make any that I remember anyway. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:19:04] And so were you pretty close to the other girls that you lived with at Ming Quong? Dale Lee: [00:19:11] Yes, we were very close. We all you know, it was like having a roommate, you know, for. Let's say two or three years, and so you got to know the person and what they like, what they didn't like and, you know, just have a nice playmate all the time. Grace Song: [00:19:35] Yeah, and it must have been pretty fun to a certain extent. Dale Lee: [00:19:40] It really was. I feel people say, oh, you poor thing, you were raised in an orphanage. I said, no, I am. I have fond memories of it. I we were well taken care of. Not like we were beaten every day or neglected. No, very much taken care of. Grace Song: [00:20:01] And the adults who were watching over all of you, were they pretty strict and pretty good with discipline and things like that? Dale Lee: [00:20:09] I have to laugh because Miss Martin, she was strict. But, you know, I was just I was very calm and I never created any problems. But talking to my other Ming Quong sisters, they have a different outlook on that one. So it's interesting how we compared notes later on in life. And so I didn't have any problems. It was, you know, depended if you got in trouble for what you felt the wrath of whoever was in control. Grace Song: [00:20:49] Well, let's see. So after Ming Quong then did where did you go? You mentioned your foster parents. So when did did that happen when you were 10 years old? Dale Lee: [00:21:02] And so, yeah, I went I moved back into San Francisco near Noe street where Castro Street is, and I had an apartment above a grocery store. And we stayed there for about a year. And then they decided they wanted a bigger place, so they bought a home up in Twin Peaks. And that was a huge house, and that's when they started to also either adopt, adopt or foster other children. Dale Lee: [00:21:39] So I can always claim saying I was the first one. Grace Song: [00:21:44] And were you officially adopted? Dale Lee: [00:21:49] No, no, my it's my understanding. My my my mother. My Asian mother. No, did not want me adopted. Grace Song: [00:22:02] I see. OK, and so would you call them your parents, would you call them mom and dad immediately, or did that take a while? Dale Lee: [00:22:14] Yeah, mom and dad, my parents, that's all I'm referred to them as. Grace Song: [00:22:18] And so it sounds like they took a liking to you specifically at Ming Quong. Dale Lee: [00:22:23] And it was kind of funny. My understanding is that they were told that the home was going to close and that they were placing all the girls into different place places and that Dale didn't have a place to go, so would you like to keep her? So that's how I ended up with the Schmidts and stayed there until I was twenty one and I got married. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:22:51] And can you did you mention your parents' first names? Dale Lee: [00:22:58] My parents, which ... my foster parents? Grace Song: [00:23:03] Yes. Dale Lee: [00:23:03] Oh, yeah, they were Fern and John Schmidt. Grace Song: [00:23:06] OK. OK. And so. So you were adopted first and then came along your other adopted siblings. Can you talk a little bit about that? Dale Lee: [00:23:20] Well, I was a foster child still, and then the next one was a Samoan girl, and she was adopted. And then then came another Chinese girl. She was from the Oakland Ming Quong and she was also a foster child. And then after that, they adopted three Korean girls from Korea. So we were most of the time, we were a family of five kids, but then the sixth one came very late in life. So it was like I was maybe twenty twenty one by the time the last one came. Grace Song: [00:24:00] Wow. Dale Lee: [00:24:01] Yeah. Dale Lee: [00:24:04] And we traveled quite a bit. Always in August we would travel by a Volkswagen bus and we travel across the United States. We ended up in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Maine, all along the East Coast. It was quite a trip. And we met some very interesting people, good stories, especially in Newfoundland, because they had never seen an Asian person so they were interested in where we came from and shocked that we spoke English and things like that, so you can imagine what we look like traveling. Grace Song: [00:24:50] And you mentioned that your parents were from the Latter Day Saints church, Dale Lee: [00:24:57] Correct. Yes. Yes. Grace Song: [00:24:59] And so. And you still practice today? Dale Lee: [00:25:03] I do, yes. So Grace Song: [00:25:05] That must have had a very profound influence on you. Dale Lee: [00:25:11] It did. Very much so influence. Yes. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:25:16] And so. Since you've traveled so much, it was only in the summer so and so, your schooling was pretty stable. Dale Lee: [00:25:25] We would only travel like in August when there was no school. Grace Song: [00:25:29] And you would perform with your family? Dale Lee: [00:25:32] We would perform as a family, yes. So would do some Hawaiian hulas. We do Samoan dancing. We did Korean dancing we did Chinese ribbon dance. My specialty was playing the accordion. We sang together with a ukulele or a guitar. And so we had a whole program that we put on. Daniel Keough: [00:26:02] I'm curious. What was your what was the background of your parents? Your foster parents, how did they end up interested in adopting and music and all that? Dale Lee: [00:26:12] Well she couldn't Mom couldn't have any children. Dad was a structural engineer and mom was a schoolteacher and they met at a dance studio. Dad wanted to take dancing lessons. So that's how they met. And I think they're they were interested in Asian culture because of mom teaching at the school, like I mentioned before, with a lot of Asian children. Daniel Keough: [00:26:44] Where were they originally from? Dale Lee: [00:26:47] Well, dad's family was from. Let's see. Sonoma, I believe, but the family roots are from Germany, OK, and mom, she was raised in Utah. And her background would be from England. Daniel Keough: [00:27:11] Since was it because she was already so well versed in dance and music that you all started as a family? Dale Lee: [00:27:19] Yeah, they wanted something, that what we could do all together. We used to do a lot of hiking, too, up in Muir Woods, and it was an all day event, you know, that we would go on hikes. So we were very busy. We had a busy schedule. So there wasn't much time for any, you know, much of. Hanging around other friends, we really stuck together as a family. Daniel Keough: [00:27:54] Yeah, what was your experience as far as school and growing up in San Francisco? Dale Lee: [00:28:02] Oh. Well, school was fun, I mean, we got to go to your neighborhood school, I went to the one down there, Castro, and I went out in the avenues and then I ended up going to Lowell High School, which is renowned for being a college prep school. I wasn't the best student. So I can't I can't I can't claim that, but. They were after I graduated, I really didn't know what I wanted to do because, you know, there was no, you know, how parents, you know, you should do this. You should do that. I had no idea. And so they decided that I could make a good dental assistant. So they sent me off to a dental college, a dental nursing college. So I did work that field for a couple of years. I realized it wasn't for me, so. But. Dale Lee: [00:29:17] Yeah, no, the schools were good, you know, and we really didn't have any trouble in school, it just. A lot of walking, we were expect to walk and not take the bus. Daniel Keough: [00:29:34] And where did you end up going to dental school? Dale Lee: [00:29:38] Right there almost two blocks away from the high school? Oh, that's right on Masonic Avenue. Yeah. So it wasn't that far away. Dale Lee: [00:29:50] So and then after two years of that, I decided, well. Decided to work for the telephone company as as a teletypist and a service rep. Dale Lee: [00:30:01] Until I got married and then went on to have children and then went into the education field as. Assistant administrative duties. Grace Song: [00:30:17] And you stayed in the education field since then? Pretty much. Dale Lee: [00:30:22] Pretty much so, yeah. Yeah. Dale Lee: [00:30:25] Then I started working at an elementary school helping the ESL students English as a second language, and then proceeded to go to a high school where I was the registrar. And then after that, I moved up to. The district office and was an administrative assistant there, and that's where I ended up retiring from. Dale Lee: [00:30:53] So and then they then they called me in and they needed some help and I for five years, I was the coordinator for. What do you call it? They go to camp for weeks. Dale Lee: [00:31:14] What? Grace Song: [00:31:15] Science camp? Dale Lee: [00:31:16] Not science, but learn about the Earth and about the animals and, oh, I can't think for the life of me. Grace Song: [00:31:26] I don't think I went to this camp, so I don't know. Dale Lee: [00:31:30] Oh, yeah, it's something that most of the Bay Area, the orange or the fifth graders, they would go on this one week trips down to the YMCA camp site in. Pescadero. Grace Song: [00:31:51] Ok. Dale Lee: [00:31:53] What education, that's going to bug me now. Daniel Keough: [00:31:59] Is it Camp Jones? Dale Lee: [00:32:03] Jonas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where they would go. Oh, I would have to coordinate with the students, make sure, you know, not the students themselves, but the cabin leaders were high school students. And so I would have to recruit them and make sure they got on the bus and did what they were supposed to do. Dale Lee: [00:32:24] I never had to go down to the camp. But that was fun. Grace Song: [00:32:29] So that after you retired? Dale Lee: [00:32:31] Yeah, that was after I retired. Dale Lee: [00:32:33] Yes, I did that for about five years because the gentleman that had been doing it, he no longer wanted to do it. And I used to help him out. So they said, OK, Dale, it's time for you to take over. OK, I can do it. Grace Song: [00:32:52] And so. Let's see here, are you I know we asked you last time, but are you part of any organizations or groups right now or before previously? Dale Lee: [00:33:09] Oh, well, I told you I was. Before covid, I was attending senior classes with my ukulele friends, so once a week we would all gather together for about an hour and just play different tunes, you know, songs. Dale Lee: [00:33:30] And sometimes in San Bruno, sometimes in Daly City or Pacifica, they all have senior centers and they all offer these classes. So that's mainly what I was doing. Grace Song: [00:33:47] Do you still play the accordion by any chance? Dale Lee: [00:33:50] Well, I don't because I don't have one anymore. It was too heavy to lug around, so I gave it to someone that could use it. So, yeah, I wish I did. But that thing was over 20 pounds too heavy. Grace Song: [00:34:12] Yeah. Dale Lee: [00:34:12] And I do some service projects for our church right now. I'm working on some Christmas bags and they're for the children at the U.C. hospitals. So when they get they're given toys in this bag, it's a simple one year bag, one yard bag with a drawstring. So that's kept me something to do. Busy at home since we can't travel that much so. Grace Song: [00:34:43] Yeah. Yeah. Did you and your husband and your family travel a lot before? Dale Lee: [00:34:49] No, no, not much. Yeah. Grace Song: [00:34:54] You got a lot of traveling in in your childhood, so. Dale Lee: [00:34:57] Yeah. Yeah, exactly. The only time we would really travel is sometimes we'd go to a I take the kids and we go to an archery tournament. Yeah. So that was a fun activity for the family. Grace Song: [00:35:15] And how many kids do you have? Dale Lee: [00:35:17] I have four. Grace Song: [00:35:19] Four? OK. Dale Lee: [00:35:19] Yeah, three girls and a boy. Grace Song: [00:35:22] Ok, great. Do you have any grandchildren? Dale Lee: [00:35:26] Oh, yes, I have nine of them. Grace Song: [00:35:28] Wow. Dale Lee: [00:35:29] Yeah. Grace Song: [00:35:31] So you're probably very busy. Dale Lee: [00:35:34] Well, right now they're trying to be quite healthy and so it's hard and you can't have your grandchildren really hard, especially for the youngest one is seven. And, you know, he gets so excited, he just runs up to you. What do you do you can't ignore him when he wants a hug. Grace Song: [00:35:54] So, yeah, but you still get to see your family during the pandemic and all. Dale Lee: [00:36:02] Yes. Yes. One day before earlier on in the pandemic, they decided they didn't want to want us shopping so they would bring food to us already cooked. I mean, it was marvelous. But then now, you know, they're busy with trying to get the kids to school and, you know, work. So I said, no, that's good enough. You know, we appreciate it, but we can take care of ourselves for a while, even though, you know, I loved it when they would cook. I mean, really great food. Daniel Keough: [00:36:36] Do they all live in the area or. Dale Lee: [00:36:38] Three of them do. Three live let's see and we have Redwood City, Santa Clara and San Jose. And then the one married a Texan. So she lives in Texas. So we have Zoom meetings every Sunday, so we get to talk to each other. OK. Nice. Daniel Keough: [00:37:02] Yeah, I don't know if we found out how did you meet your husband? Dale Lee: [00:37:08] At San Francisco City College. Yeah, we were we're both advisers to different clubs on campus, and we met together with all the club representatives were together. Daniel Keough: [00:37:26] Can I ask what clubs you were both in charge of? Dale Lee: [00:37:30] I was in the club for LDS members. It was called the Deseret Club, and he was with the Chinese club. So that's how we met. Daniel Keough: [00:37:45] Very funny that you met through a meeting of different types of groups. Dale Lee: [00:37:53] Yeah, yeah. Daniel Keough: [00:37:56] I was just is this is City College where you went for education, not for dental education? Dale Lee: [00:38:04] Right after my dental work. I'll try. Back to school, you know, and I went one semester, realized you need money to to live, so I went back to work. Grace Song: [00:38:24] What was I going to ask? Oh, I guess when you moved to the city, did you feel more at home there than you did at Ming Quong because you had your foster parents? Dale Lee: [00:38:37] No, no, no, no, I didn't. I never felt that I was missing anything because, you know... [truncated due to length]Collection
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